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by pravus 3y ago
No, you can't use "invisible hand" theories in the current economy because the hand is very visibly the government when it comes to bank monetary policy. Any claim that world economies are anything like the markets Adam Smit
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by pravus 3y ago
I think my vote goes to ColdFusion.
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by pravus 3y ago
>If you are running something worth over $1 trillion that makes hundreds of billions of dollars per year it makes sense though, right? But he isn't running it. He has legal control over it, but in terms of sweat equity he only gets
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by pravus 3y ago
No, you would be changing how the wasm module operates in its own address space. You aren't changing how the VM runs. As far as I know wasm never made any promise against self-modifying code and I don't even understand the threa
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by pravus 3y ago
I had this same thing happen to me when I went from 343 to 170. It completely messes with me now going into public and having people actually acknowledge my presence and engage with me. I used to just be a ghost. All I can remember from m
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by pravus 3y ago
The client shouldn't even attempt to get an AAAA record unless they have an IPv6 stack available. In that case, their client should try to look up an A record and get an NXDOMAIN error which the browser usually shows as "IP addre
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by pravus 3y ago
Eh, yes and no. With proper testing this issue should have been caught. But this is also an example of how small details in crypto can become a huge issue and domain knowledge counts for a lot. As soon as the story turned to getpass() on
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by pravus 3y ago
> XML <-> XHTML + UIML I agree with this idea. We need a toolkit standard for the web and to stop shoving application code into a document model. What's strange to me is that so many people have been trying so hard to either
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by pravus 3y ago
After the outrage I saw when a US citizen was caned in Singapore for a vandalism violation, I'd say no, the people here probably don't look to Singapore as a guide for enforcement.
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by pravus 3y ago
You cannot keep me from lying. You can only hold me accountable if my lies do harm. So I would take it as a "natural right" even though I realize those are contended.
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by pravus 3y ago
> That is what "Web Environment Integrity" threatens. This is the important part.
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by pravus 3y ago
You need to include the first phrase. It is the right to lie that is being threatened.
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by pravus 3y ago
> Is there any chance of a hard fork? What about, let's say, a web 1.1 where we intentionally remove all the fancy new web APIs and mostly revert back to what we had in the late 90s? Sure. It's really just a matter of mass app
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by pravus 3y ago
> is there any example where theoretical computer science has actually been useful? Anything requiring extremely optimized algorithms will generally start in academia and work its way outward as the techniques are adopted in commercial s
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by pravus 3y ago
> Democracies cannot fail, only the people in it do. I think this is false if only because the premise of Democracy is so poorly defined. What are we voting on? Why? Who is "we"? Am I allowed to call a vote to strip you of y
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by pravus 3y ago
I love this and will make sure to support this kind of thing in a login system I am building.
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by pravus 3y ago
I don't really know how to take comments like this. I work on a pipeline that processes millions of events per day in a pipeline that contains two pretty busy Go programs. One has an embedded Javascript engine and does all kinds of pa
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by pravus 3y ago
Welcome to the GNU universe. This kind of thing was more prominent in the 00's and I've basically sworn off ever contributing to any GPL projects or using GPL licenses because of how GNU has acted over time. At odd times they ge
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by pravus 3y ago
> I've been using Linux for 25 years, spent 6 or so years doing administration type work on large Unix systems, and spent 10 years in a back-end developer role. I've somewhere in the high five figure range of hours spent contri
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by pravus 3y ago
> Old-school FOSS nerds have a hard time admitting that they tend to be absolutely useless at considering user experience, because then that’s something On Computers that they’re not good at. New-school FOSS nerds don't seem to unde
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by pravus 3y ago
It is the iron law of oligarchy.
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by pravus 3y ago
> And reinforces the notion of a priest class, upon which amateurs, encountering the same, should abandon their labors and despair. The priests are mathematical algorithms and their judgements are based purely on the ability of candidate
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by pravus 3y ago
I'm on a keto diet and eat that level of fat pretty regularly. When I cook eggs I'll use 1/4 stick of butter per 3 eggs and serve it over a huge pile of cheese. Add in sour cream or bacon and the fat content gets pretty hig
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by pravus 3y ago
> So what would the pros and cons be today and why is it a selling point? I'm not saying they pulled it off because I would need to evaluate it, but having your own dependency stack can result in a much more streamlined solution for
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by pravus 3y ago
If your workers can hop onto the next task without having to reach out for any additional state or report back to anything synchronously a distributed log/spool/queue/broker works well. If you need light-weight reporting like
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by pravus 3y ago
> That is a surprising revalation; that iptables filters traffic depending on Linux implementations details. One could imagine the outcry if firewall vendor X suffered a similar “feature”. Or is this well known for Linux iptable users? A
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by pravus 3y ago
I guess my question would be why we feel like we must live in a society where we have to beg an elite cadre of distant "representatives" to do anything. I've been consistently reminded my entire life that if we don't do
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by pravus 3y ago
Because I get other levels of isolation such as at the network, filesystem, and syscalls and I can run many instances of the same binary on a host much like a VM, but vastly lighter-weight. No, containers are not a problem and they don&#x27
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by pravus 3y ago
> If you are prepared to live without everything "other human beings" offer you, then sure -- but you're not prepared to do that. So you must reach some sort of agreement with "other human beings" even if that me
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by pravus 3y ago
Yes and no. The attestation API will allow websites to verify certain things about the user agent which they then may use to either deny access or alter the access for the requested resource. This is similar to existing methods of checking

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